A multidisciplinary research team coordinated by Maarten van Bommel, professor of Conservation Science at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), has been awarded 900,000 euros funding by the Dutch Research Council NWO ...

Michiel Vermaat has won the Rijksmuseum Migelien Gerritzen thesis prize 2024 with his master's thesis, entitled ‘Seeing Beyond the Surface: Investigating Methods of Visualising Consolidants in Wood Borer-Damaged ...

In a paper in Macromolecules, researchers at the University of Amsterdam’s Van ‘t Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences present detailed insights into the polymerization process of drying oils in paint. Using ...

Jorien Duivenvoorden has been appointed Assistant Professor of Conservation of Historic Interiors in a Socio-material Context at the University of Amsterdam. Her work centers around climate-induced material ...

Chemists at the Rijksmuseum and the University of Amsterdam (UvA) have for the first time established how Rembrandt applied special arsenic sulfide pigments to create a ‘golden’ paint. Using sophisticated ...

How can museums reduce energy consumption and widen indoor climate tolerances safely? How did black woollens quality standards in the 18th-century develop and change over time? With funding from the Dutch Science ...

The UvA Conservation and Restoration Department is excited to announce that it will host a second edition of the masterclass The Dutch Method Unfolded on the wax-resin lining of paintings in January 2025. The Getty ...

Start up a computer that you haven't used in a while and there's a good chance you'll have to run an endless series of updates before you get it working. What about digital art? How do you ensure that that the art ...

Next week we will kick of the fourth edition of the online student conference ConNext: ConNext 2024. For four consecutive weeks students from conservation training programmes around Europe will present their ...

Curators, conservators and conservation scientists are invited to apply to this traveling seminar devoted to the examination, historic manufacture and scientific study of pastels.